You’re at a South Carolina football game, sitting in the sun at Williams-Brice Stadium. South Carolina scores, and as the fans go wild, you tweet to your buddies, “Touchdown, Gamecocks!”
Oops, there’s a flag on that play. All social networking at games is against SEC rules. Gamecocks can’t tweet.
Or can they? The Southeastern Conference told The Observer on Monday that the conference is revising what might be college sports’ most restrictive policy on social media. Why? Because of the negative reaction in the media and on social media.
Ok, i understand why they might have a problem with videos from the game, but tweets? That just seems absurd. How would you even crack down on such a thing? How do they know if someone sent it from the stadium or the bar down the street? Does the SEC really have the man power to track this kind of thing down? So many questions.
